List of members of the Fancher party

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The Fancher Party was the name used to collectively describe the American western emigrants from four northwestern counties in Arkansas who were the victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Sources estimate that between 100 and 140 men, women and children were killed on September 11, 1857 at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail, in the Utah Territory.[1]

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[edit] Families leaving the party before reaching Utah territory

  1. Smith
  2. Morton
  3. Hudson
  4. Basham
  5. Haydon
  6. Reed
  7. Stevenson
  8. Hamilton
  9. Farmer
  10. Lafoon and/or Laffoon
  11. Poteet
  12. Poteet

[edit] Families leaving in Utah territory

There is some dispute on whether young women from party left with them (ie Tackitt and Dunlap women) listed below.

  1. Eaton, William M.
  2. Edwards, Silas
  3. Rush, Milum L., 28
  4. Stallcup, Charles, 25

[edit] Believed murdered at Mountain Meadows

  1. Aden, William Allen, 19
  2. Baker, Abel, 19
  3. Baker, George W., 27
  4. Baker, John T., 52
  5. Baker, Manerva A. Beller, 25
  6. Baker, Mary Lovina, 7
  7. Beach, John, 21
  8. Beller, David W., 12
  9. Beller, Melissa Ann, 14
  10. Cameron, Henry, 16
  11. Cameron, Isom, 18
  12. Cameron, James, 14
  13. Cameron, Larkin, 8
  14. Cameron, Martha, 11
  15. Cameron, Martha, 51
  16. Cameron, Tillman, 24
  17. Cameron, William, 51
  18. Cameron?, Nancy (William Cameron's niece), 12
  19. Deshazo, Allen P., 20
  20. Dunlap, Mary Wharton, 39
  21. Dunlap, Ellender, 18
  22. Dunlap, Nancy M., 16
  23. Fancher, Alexander, 45
  24. Fancher, Eliza Ingrum, 32
  25. Fancher, Frances "Fanny" Fulfer,
  26. Fancher, Hampton, 19
  27. Fancher, James Mathew, 25
  28. Fancher, Margaret A., 7
  29. Fancher, Martha, 10
  30. Fancher, Mary, 15
  31. Fancher, Robert, 19
  32. Fancher, Sarah G., 7
  33. Fancher, Thomas, 14
  34. Fancher, William, 17
  35. Huff, Elisha,
  36. Huff, Saladia Ann Brown,
  37. Huff, William
  38. Huff, Possible unknown son[2]
  39. Jones, Eloah Angeline Tackitt, 27
  40. Jones, John Milum, 32
  41. Jones, Newton
  42. Jones, Possible unknown daughter[3]
  43. Jr., Jesse Dunlap, 39
  44. McEntire, Lawson A., 21
  45. Miller, James William, 9
  46. Miller, Josiah (Joseph), 30
  47. Miller, Matilda Cameron, 26
  48. Mitchell, Charles R., 25
  49. Mitchell, Infant (possible)[4]
  50. Mitchell, Joel D., 23
  51. Mitchell, John,
  52. Mitchell, Sarah C. Baker, 21
  53. Prewit, John, 20
  54. Prewit, William, 18
  55. Tackitt, Pleasant, 25

[edit] Children who were returned to live with relatives

Seventeen small children, all under the age of seven, survived the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Two years after the Massacre, the orphans were returned to their families. These children were: Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Frances and William Twitty Baker, the children of George and Minerva Baker; Rebecca, Louisa and Sarah Dunlap, the daughters of Jesse and Mary Dunlap; Prudence Angeline and Georgia Ann Dunlap, the daughters of Lorenzo and Nancy Dunlap; Christopher and Tryphenia Fancher, the children of Alexander and Elizabeth Fancher; Nancy Sophronia Huff, the daughter of Peter and Saleta Huff; Felix Marion Jones, the son of John and Eloah Jones; John Calvin, Mary and Joseph Miller, the children of Josh and Matilda Miller; and Emberson Milum and William Henry Tackitt, the sons of Pleasant and Armilda Tackitt.[5]

  1. Baker, Mary Elizabeth, 5
  2. Baker, Sarah Frances, 3
  3. Baker, William Twitty, 9 months
  4. Dunlap, Georgia Ann, 18 months
  5. Dunlap, Louisa, 4
  6. Dunlap, Prudence Angeline, 5
  7. Dunlap, Rebecca J., 6
  8. Dunlap, Sarah E., 1
  9. Fancher, Christopher "Kit" Carson, 5
  10. Fancher, Triphenia D., 22 months
  11. Huff, Nancy Saphrona, 4
  12. Jones, Felix Marion, 18 months
  13. Miller, John Calvin, 6
  14. Miller, Joseph, 1
  15. Miller, Mary, 4
  16. Tackitt, Emberson Milum, 4
  17. Tackitt, William Henry, 19 months

[edit] Fate unknown or evidence of survivorship in Utah Territory or Wyoming

  1. Dunlap, Lorenzo Dow, 42
  2. Dunlap, John H.,16
  3. Dunlap, Mary Ann, 13
  4. Dunlap, Talitha Emaline, 11
  5. Dunlap, Mary Ann, 9
  6. Dunlap, Thomas J., 17
  7. Dunlap, Nancy M., 16
  8. Dunlap, James D., 14
  9. Dunlap, Susannah, 12[6]
  10. Dunlap, Lucinda, 12[7]
  11. Dunlap, Margerette, 11
  12. Dunlap, Nancy, 9
  13. Dunlap, America Jane, 7
  14. Tackitt, Cynthia, 49
  15. Tackitt, Marion, 20
  16. Tackitt, Armilda Miller, 22
  17. Tackitt, Sebron, 18
  18. Tackitt, Matilda, 16
  19. Tackitt, James, 14
  20. Tackitt, Jones M., 12

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ James Lynch, in sworn testimony (1859), stated that there were 140 victims "murdered in cold blood". Indian Superintendent Jacob Forney stated about 115 people had been killed [1]. The monument erected at Mountain Meadows in 1932 stated that the company consisted of about 140 emigrants and that all but 17 small children were killed. Brooks (1991), in the introduction of her paperback version of Mountain Meadows Massacre, concludes, "the number 123 people killed is greatly exaggerated" and cites several sources giving estimates less than 100. The monument erected in 1990 lists the names of 82 victims who have been identified by the research of descendents of the survivors (see [2] and Bagley (2002)), but states that there were also "others who are unknown."
  2. ^ Likely a Dunlap child listed in fate unknown - evidence of guardianship by head of household
  3. ^ Likely a Dunlap child listed in fate unknown - evidence of guardianship by head of household
  4. ^ Unsure if child had died prior to massacre
  5. ^ Bagley pp. 239-242 Also see: Inscription on 1990 Mountain Meadows Monument [3]
  6. ^ May be same person as Lucinda Dunlap
  7. ^ May be same person as Susannah Dunlap
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